How do you raise your mood in winter evenings, when the blizzard is outside the window and frosty wind, and you really want warmth and coziness? Starting in mid-January, my post-holiday breakdown begins-this is when you get used to a noisy society, to fun, to loud music and dancing, and suddenly all this disappears somewhere. And you are left alone in winter, longing and TV.
In such cases, each of us is looking for our own recipe for salvation from boredom. Some try themselves in knitting and embroidery, others try to comprehend the basics of photoshop, while others are looking for ways to give up smoking and start leading a healthy lifestyle. And I discovered the world of aromas many years ago many years ago. They are capable of a lot – relax and shake, soothe and tone, make them smile and immerse into a state of romantic weightlessness.
There are a huge number of ways to fill the house with an exquisite aroma of incense. I’ll tell you about the three most popular and, it seems to me, the most affordable.
So, the first way, potpourri. Prepare small wicker baskets and fill it with a mixture of dry pink petals and fragrant lavender leaves, put a potpourri anywhere in the apartment – in the bathroom, hallway, living room or bedroom. You can also fill small cotton bags with floral petals and put them in the head of the bed, helps to relax and asleep as soon as possible.
Second method, grass bouquet. Bouquets of dry herbs will look very original and beautiful in your kitchen – basil, mint, eucalyptus and others. In addition, they can be used during the preparation of lunch, like seasonings.
Third method, candles, sprays and flowers. In recent years, aromatic candles have gained immense popularity, mostly, thanks to the variety of shapes, colors, sizes and smells. If you prefer a weaker concentration of aromas, then the most traditional option was and remain fresh flowers – spray the buds with fresh water, thus refreshing their aroma. The most mobile tool can be called sprays, good, they can be purchased in every store.
I always have a stock of aromatic candles, and there is an aroma lamp on the shelf. As soon as I feel that with quiet steps, sadness and winter longing crept up from around the corner, I take out lavender oil, and a thin elegant aroma creeps around the house.
When it becomes boring, we try to distract from bad thoughts in different ways. Someone reads a book, someone is watching TV, some people are looking for salvation in the networks of the World Wide Web. Many are so carried away that they even write poetry about the Internet, about love and about life around them.
Another way to have fun in a dreary winter evening is to communicate on the network with friends with various services – ICQ, in the common people “ICQ”, QIP, Skype. Moreover, ICQ registration has a fairly affordable procedure and will not cause special problems even to a novice user.